Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our goal is to create a beloved community," said Dr. King, "and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is better to be the recipient of violence than the inflicter of it, since the latter only multiplies the existence of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
For years, I labored with the idea of reforming the existing institutions in the South, a little change here, a little change… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The thing that we need in the world today, is a group of men and women who will stand up for right… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
By opening our lives to God in Christ, we become new creatures. This experience, which Jesus spoke of as the new birth,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A host of positive psychological changes inevitably will result from widespread economic security. The dignity of the individual will flourish when the decisions concerning his life are in his own hands, when he has the means to seek self-improvement. Personal conflicts among husbands, wives and children will diminish when the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate. The broad education will, therefore, transmit to one not only the accumulated knowledge of the race but also the accumulated experience of social living. If we… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
